Road Trip: Ulysses S. Grant’s Birthplace
There’s a quiet but distinct charm about Pt. Pleasant. Maybe it’s the name. Or it’s location at the mouth of Big Indian Creek. It’s small enough that it might have disappeared from the map by now,...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Cleveland’s Little Italy Neighborhood
Take a walk up the steep, narrow streets of Cleveland’s Little Italy and you may wonder if you’re still in Ohio. The sounds of Italian opera spill from a corner restaurant, while across the street,...
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Road Trip: Hocking Canal
Logan has a long produced clay products. There were once a number of clay companies here — and those clay products – and others that were locally produced, once left town one way: the Hocking Valley...
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Road Trip: The Neil Armstrong Air And Space Museum
Ohio has flight in its veins. The Wright brothers began experimenting with planes in Dayton, and the state claims 24 astronauts. Wapakoneta is the home of Neil Armstrong – the first man to step foot on...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Fort Meigs
Fort Meigs is the largest wooden fort ever built in North America…and it’s easy to see why they built a fort here: marching up this 40-foot bluff from the Maumee River seems like suicide for the enemy...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Zane’s Trace
Zane’s Trace was one of the earliest roads in the state, but the site we’re visiting this week predates that early road. The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park traces a culture that goes back...
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Road Trip: The National Museum Of Cambridge Glass
From the outside the National Museum of Cambridge Glass doesn’t look out of the ordinary. It’s in an old 1960s era building that could have been a bank. But once you get inside, the museum sparkles....
View ArticleRoad Trip: Industrial Cleveland
You can still see the industrial history of Cleveland. Start at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where Moses Cleaveland stepped ashore from Lake Erie in 1796. That natural resource had already been long...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Oak Openings
Just west of Toledo is the Oak Openings Metropark, a 4000-acre site that preserves an amazing ecosystem of oak savannahs, abundant wildlife, and extremely rare plant species. “The Oak Openings, to the...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Fort Recovery
After the Revolutionary War, the frontier was Ohio. Crossing the Ohio River from Kentucky was crossing the threshold to the new land. The pull of the unknown territory was vast fertile terrain,...
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